Góðan morgun, ein gleðilig jól og eitt gott nýggjár!
The above says: ‘Good morning, merry christmas and happy new years!’ in Faroese. Woohoo!
Well, I didn’t blog yesterday – know why? It’s Christmas. Or, it was the 23rd of December. And we had lots to do – I had to pack my suitcase for Klaksvík and get ready for the Opening Presents Session (ie wrap stuff) and here’s the clincher: make 42 Christmas mince pies.
I’m PROUD of my 42 mince pies because I made them totally from scratch – the mince AND the pastry. That’s some serious good efforts right there, especially as the mince involved suet. Never again. Ugh!
We were meant to go to Klaksvík yesterday which was why everything was such a rush. In the end, though, we didn’t, as a huge storm broke yesterday morning which would have made driving very, very difficult. The storm did calm in the end but by then it was too late to head out and so here I am on the morning of the 24th, stil in Tórshavn.
Morning. I hate that word. Morning. It’s 7.46AM on the 24th of December and I wish it wasn’t. The whole wakeful thing this early in the holidays ain’t good. And why am I awake? Because thanks, parents, New Zealand called me at 6.30AM. OUCH! Darned time difference. For future reference, anybody who ever feels like calling me which is really nobody but however, New Zealand is 13 hours ahead of the Faroe Islands.
But yes, anyway, here I am trying to think of something to do with myself as I really stand no chance of getting back to sleep now, even though I only made it to bed at... 2AM. Damn. So I figured I would write a blog seeing as one is overdue anyway. And so here I am. I shall tell you about Christmas in the Faroe Islands, 2007.

First BIG IMPORTANT THING: Snow. There isn’t much of it this morning but there’s a tiny bit. Which makes me happy as I can now say we had snow at Christmas. And Klaksvík is more Northern anyway so hopefully there will be more there! I live in hope. But yes, sometimes it snows at Christmas but it hasn’t for 5 years so it’s way overdue.
Second important thing: Tradition here demands that families with small children dance around the Christmas tree. I thought this was the cutest thing I had ever heard of and was very determined to dance around the Christmas tree and so, though my host aunt and uncle’s Christmas tree normally resides in the corner of the room, they have moved it into the middle so we can ‘dansa rundt jólatræið’. I am very much looking forward to it.
Third important thing: Present opening takes place on Christmas Eve in the evening. Which means that strangely enough I will be opening my presents at the same time as you guys in New Zealand.

Ah, bother. I think it’s raining. The little snow there is is fully going to wash away, darned Faroe weather. But ah well.

Um, so my last week. WELL. School finished on Thursday and we had a really hilarious day just sitting around and eating leftover candy from my Christmas concert. Which went really well and we made lots of money from it, even though I sang. We had a few invasions of small children onto the stage but we did OK. Anyway, last day of school we ate leftover candy and used leftover face paint to decorate ourselves. It was extremely entertaining – all our classes were cancelled except for English, and even then the teacher brought tea, coffee, carrot cake and a movie and we just sat and relaxed for an hour and a half. And yeah, then most of the class left and a bunch of us just sat around relaxing, watching youtube, etc etc. It was a great day.

Anyway, I am very, very tired and I have a long day ahead so I am heading back to bed.
Love you all, merry Christmas!